The Moth was the reason The Fisher existed. The Moth was one of several Fortian airplanes whose development started as soon as they had unified Florida under their banner. While it superficially looks like the Confederal Windows Shades, the Moth was a bit of an opposite: where the Window Shades was fast, but had a minimal crew, the Moth is made to take advantage of night cover. For this, it has long wings to maximize it's payload, and also possesses defensive gunners in case it does meet night fighters. While it was originally made without it, a machine gun nest was later added to counter frontal attacks by God's marines sacrificial aircraft.

The Moth is also a strong contrast compared to the Eastern Seaboard heavy bombers: where their defense comes from resilience and bristling with guns, this plane seeks to be fast instead.

While early Fortian wars were fought with former Nova Evropan equipment shipped during the Exodus, the war they fled from had proven the superiority of airplanes as the bread and butter of an air force. Moreover, the adoption of airplanes served as a political tool: In contrast with the obstinate old Nova Evropan rulers, who refused to adopt even the military means of what they saw as inferior mongrels, invaders and dissolutes or even listen to non-Citizens, Fortia is more than capable of learning from their enemy and adapting their means.